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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Wislawa Szymborska
Age: 88 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 2
Died: 2012
Died: February 1
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Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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